Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

SCALLOWAY, MAIN STREET, GIBBLESTONE HOUSE, INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERSLB18557

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
18/10/1977
Local Authority
Shetland Islands
Planning Authority
Shetland Islands
Parish
Tingwall
NGR
HU 40278 39472
Coordinates
440278, 1139472

Description

Late 18th century, with late 19th century alterations. 2-storey and attic 3-bay symmetrical former merchant's haa. Harled walls with margined windows and corners.

S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical, corniced and parapetted stone entrance porch projecting at centre comprising 4-panel timber door with rectangular fanlight flanked by paired pilasters clasping corners, rising to piend-roofed timber bay window with bipartite window and sidelights at upper floor. Single storey 4-light canted and parapetted stone bay windows flanking entrance porch. Regular fenestration to outer bays at 1st floor.

W GABLE: 2-bay gable, blank at ground, window in each bay at 1st floor.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 2-storey lean-to addition with catslide roof at centre, regular fenestration to bays at outer left and right.

E GABLE: blank.

Plate glass timber sash and case windows to principal elevation, 12-pane timber sash and case windows to W gable and rear elevation. Purple-grey slate roof, piend-roofed slate-hung canted timber dormers over outer bays of S pitch, each with 4-pane timber sash and case principal windows and plate glass sidelights. Harled and margined gablehead stacks with stone copes and octagonal cans, painted skew- copes with bracketted skewputts.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: formal arrangement of walls enclosing gardens stepping down to S; upper garden enclosed by rubble wall, lower wallhead to central portion with ashlar cope and modern railing centred by pair of tall ashlar gatepiers with corniced and ball-finialled pyramidal caps and 2-leaf cast-iron gates. Lower garden immediately to S enclosed by random rubble wall (to Main Street) with triangular cope; wall terminated to E and W by square rubble piers with pyramidal caps.

Statement of Special Interest

Gibblestone was owned by the Scott family who named it after their ancestral estate of Gibliston in Fife. The house is one of a series of merchant haas that were built by immigrant Scots lairds and became a feature of Shetland from the late 17th century until the early 19th century. Like other haas throughout the islands, Gibblestone was built with a formal relationship to the sea, the axis from the principal elevation being terminated by a pier on the other side of the road (now demolished). The single storey houses set symmetrically in the garden were built when the house was converted to flats by Richard Gibson in 1989. A photograph taken prior to conversion shows the house flanked by single storey lean-to wings.

References

Bibliography

Mike Finnie SHETLAND (1990), p42. John Gifford HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS (1992), p507.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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